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  2. Triggers: Weapons That Changed the World - Wikipedia

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    Triggers: Weapons That Changed the World is an American television series that premiered on November 30, 2011 on the Military Channel, which was rebranded as the American Heroes Channel in March 2014.

  3. John Steele (paratrooper) - Wikipedia

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    Monument to John Steele, whose parachute caught on a church pinnacle on D-Day. Today, these events are commemorated by the Airborne Museum (Sainte-Mère-Église) in Place du 6 Juin in the centre of Ste-Mère-Église and in the village church where a parachute with an effigy of Private Steele in his Airborne uniform hangs from the steeple. [2]

  4. List of last surviving veterans of military operations

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    Last of the "800 Heroes". [250] [251] USS Panay incident: 12 December 1937 Imperial Japanese Navy Kaname Harada: 1916–2016 Naval Air Service. United States Navy Fon Huffman: 1913–2008 Served on USS Panay. Battle of Cape Palos: 5 March 1938 Nationalist Navy Manuel Aneiros Saavedra 1917–2020 Served on Baleares. [252] [253] Battle of Cape ...

  5. ‘American Valor: A Salute to Our Heroes’ Veterans ... - AOL

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    Presented by Northrop Grumman and Veterans United Home Loans, “American Valor: A Salute to Our Heroes” will be nationally syndicated on stations including ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and CW affiliates.

  6. List of wars involving the United States - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of military conflicts, that United States has been involved in. There are currently 123 military conflicts on this list, 5 of which are ongoing. [citation needed] These include major conflicts like the American Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II and the Gulf War.

  7. Filthy Thirteen - Wikipedia

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    The idea was McNiece's, to honor his Native American heritage and to energize the men for the danger ahead. The Filthy Thirteen was the name given to the 1st Demolition Section of the Regimental Headquarters Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment , 101st Airborne Division, of the United States Army , which fought in the European ...

  8. American Heroes Channel - Wikipedia

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    American Heroes Channel (formerly Military Channel and originally Discovery Wings Channel) is an American multinational pay television channel owned by the Warner Bros. Discovery Networks unit of Warner Bros. Discovery. The network carries programs related to the military, warfare, and military history and science.

  9. Combat Obscura - Wikipedia

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    Garcia Lawrence of The A.V. Club compared the film to The 15:17 to Paris, a war film released the previous year: "If The 15:17 To Paris saw three men who managed, against all odds, to fulfill their deeply ingrained ideals and become American heroes (“We got lucky,” one of them says toward the end), then Combat Obscura observes the countless ...